Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (64 mails)

["Chris L. Mason" <cmason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > In the beginning of ~/.xinitrc:
> > xauth add $DISPLAY . `ps auxw|md5sum|cut "-d " -f1`
> 
> Ah, the real workhorse.  This is the important part... ps auxw to get
> some long more or less random output, md5sum and cut to format it nicely.
> Worked perfectly.  Leave this intact.
> 
[...]

Or, if you're really paranoid:

xauth add $DISPLAY . \
    `dd if=/dev/random bs=256k count=1 2>/dev/null|md5sum|cut "-d " -f1`

:)


Chris